VOLUME 3 , ISSUE 1 ( January-March, 2020 ) > List of Articles
Rasikapriya Duraisamy, Banupriya Balasubramaniam, Jagadeesh Anbazhagan, Soundararajan Palanisamy
Citation Information : Duraisamy R, Balasubramaniam B, Anbazhagan J, Palanisamy S. Re-emergence of an Old Threat: Is it Time to Revise Our National Immunization Schedule?. 2020; 3 (1):40-41.
DOI: 10.5005/jp-journals-10082-02262
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Published Online: 01-08-2020
Copyright Statement: Copyright © 2020; The Author(s).
Pertussis is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable, respiratory illness caused by Bordella pertussis. In recent years, pertussis infections have reemerged worldwide.1 In resource-poor countries, pertussis-associated case fatality rate is 4% and highest in infancy.2 In 2015, the WHO reported 142,512 pertussis cases globally and 89,000 deaths.3 In the year 2017 in India, totally 23,779 cases were reported with 7 deaths.4
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